Quote Originally Posted by PhilDoc View Post
I agree, and you may be right about the gpu and vram, but I also think that he was having trouble with the stock cooler to begin with. Either bad contact or the fan not functioning properly. That's why he was having artifacts with the stock cooler. If he mounted a good stock cooler, I suspect, he'd get the same temps or better than the Zalman.
Yeh i agree, alot of times i see these retail coolers come with missing thermal pads contacting certain areas of the card, few months back, guy i used to play GRAW with removed his retail cooler from his EVGA 8800 GTX to install an HR-03, to find that 4 of the thermal pads for the ram were missing completely, making no contact whatsoever.